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Internet Modern History Sourcebook

The 21st Century


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[2001] The history of the 21st century has not yet been written, but we know that -- assuming the continuation of digital storage -- the sheer mass of available data will be enormous. in this situation, the job of a historical documents sourcebook is merely to highlight especially significant documents that may be useful in teaching. Frontline researchers must look elsewhere.

At the moment what happens in the 21st century is less "history" than "current events."  There is no historical distance that will allow the usual historical analysis of events. But this will change soon enough. By the 2020s, and even more by the 2040s, events of the 1990s and 2000s will begin to take on some "shape" and history textbooks will discern and present a shaped understanding of what occurred.

The collection of documents here represents a guess about what documents will appear significant 40-50 years hence.


Selected Documents of the 21st Century

  • President George W. Bush: "History's Unmarked Grave of Discarded Lies" Speech to Joint Session of Congress, September 21, 2001
    Probably the first great political speech of the 21st century by an American politician.

Topics

  • The Rise of China
  • The Rise of India
  • The Rise of Turkey
  • EU Problems
  • Populism
  • Smartphones
  • Artifical Intelligence
  • Social Media
  • DNA Sequencing
  • Epidemic disease

NOTES:

The Internet Modern Sourcebook is part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project. The date of inception was 9/22/1997. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or location]. Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site]. WEB indicates a link to one of small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable overview.



The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the History Department of  Fordham University, New York. The Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and other medieval components of the project, are located at the Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.The IHSP recognizes the contribution of Fordham University, the Fordham University History Department, and the Fordham Center for Medieval Studies in providing web space and server support for the project. The IHSP is a project independent of Fordham University.  Although the IHSP seeks to follow all applicable copyright law, Fordham University is not the institutional owner, and is not liable as the result of any legal action.

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